Category Archives: Art/Design

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Art in the Thick of Hollywood: Open Daybook at LACE

by Zoetica Ebb
January 24, 2011 - 10:55 am

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions aka LACE – a nonprofit organization encouraging innovation, has been around since the ’70s and found its current Hollywood Walk of Fame home in the mid-1990s. It’s an unlikely site for an art institution: surrounded by “dancer” shoe stores, tourist traps and nightclubs, LACE seems a little out of place, but that’s the genius of it. Because of this prominent yet peculiar location, the space draws colorful crowds and exposes art to a wider arena than the gallery circuit can.

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Art/Design Featured Graffiti Artist MadC Bombs a 350-Foot-Long Wall

by Richard S. Chang
January 20, 2011 - 10:46 am

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If you travel by rail between Berlin and Halle, Germany, and pay attention to the passing landscape, you will eventually set eyes on a 350-foot-long graffiti mural (obligatory football field metric: two and a third). It’s a series of detailed scenes: a laboratory overrun by rats, a shipping port under dark clouds, galleons fighting through rough waters and a giant octopus, and a cityscape at sunset. The graffiti name of the artist, MadC, is ubiquitous.

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Art/Design One Man’s Garbage is Another Man’s Art

by Shop Keeper
January 18, 2011 - 11:44 am

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores” — self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.

Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage.  However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives.  Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

The award winning film is currently screening at selected venues across the country and aboard including an open screening at Pepperdine University this Friday, Jan 21.

Check out the trailer to this inspiring film below.

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Art/Design Gallery Ornery Origami: Papertoy Monsters

by Dustin Downing
January 17, 2011 - 9:52 am

At first listen, “Papertoys,” sounds a lot like something my cheap-ass uncle came up with for Christmas one year. In reality it’s “The ultimate community based art form,” says artist/animator Castleforte. He’s the creator of NicePaperToys.com. Which is the web o’verse’s first and only papertoy social network on which users can exchange, collaborate, and download templates of characters for personalization. It’s paper airplanes, meets origami, meets Kid Robot. Take a peek.

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Art/Design Comic Books Misery City Makes No Qualms

by Jeff Nau
January 17, 2011 - 9:10 am

Blackline Comics’ Misery City #1 follows the film-noirish tale of gumshoe Max Murray, sort of a cross between a supernatural Sam Spade and William Burroughs, and one who doesn’t have to go looking for trouble: merely whore-hunting or even crossing the street unleashes the undead upon him.

But best of all is Detective Murray’s ornery, matter-of-fact narration as he confronts a 50-foot tall zombie skeleton that bursts out of a desolate city road: “If I wasn’t shaking like my wife’s vibrator, I would’ve seen its weakness sooner.”

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Art/Design Gallery Madness, Conspiracy Theories & Pop Culture at La Luz de Jesus

by Nicole Pajer and Zoetica Ebb
January 13, 2011 - 10:06 am

Currently on display at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood is Charles Binger – “A Pulp Life, Steven Dailey – “Covenant,” Howard Hallis – “The Picture of Everything,” and Tammi Otis – “A Fertile Madness.” The opening reception on Friday, January 7th, attracted swarms of Los Angeles art lovers who dedicated their Saturday night to mingling with talented artists.

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Art/Design Charles Bukowski: The Inspiring Tale of Los Angeles’ Most Drunken, Prostitute-Addicted Writer

by Jeff Nau
January 12, 2011 - 9:44 am

Bukie.

Ask any author worth his weight in rejection letters, and they’ll likely agree that Charles Bukowski was the most drunken and depraved of all writers ever to emerge from the City of Angels. And kind of understandably –  he survived a terrible childhood, three marriages, several dozen prostitutes of unusually ill repute, and a 14-year stint at the Post Office, only to die of leukemia at age 73.

For instance, as a letter he got from Story Magazine read:

“…this is a conglomeration of stuff so full of idolized prostitutes, morning-after vomiting scenes, misanthropy praise for suicide etc… that it is not quite for a magazine of any circulation at all.”

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Art/Design Don’t Let Anybody Yuck Your Yum

by Amanda Boyd
January 11, 2011 - 9:27 am

As I mentioned briefly in my magical music post, I’m one week into my three-week stay in good ol’ London and finding myself falling even more in love with this city. I’m lucky enough to get over here several times a year but generally when I’m over I feel rushed to squeeze everything in – seeing friends, having quality time with the boy, smashing in my favorite foods (oh Amigos, you make the best chicken and bacon sandwich in the world) and bars, making runs to Boots and Topshop, being dragged to Forbidden Planet and whatnot. So it’s been completely wonderful to just relax and enjoy the city, putter about and explore.

I dipped into a number of galleries this week but the following are my favorites.

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Art/Design Featured Low Riding with Lalo Cota

by Nicole Pajer
January 10, 2011 - 7:16 am

Lalo Cota is known by his trademark colorful skull-infused art that represents his Mexican heritage and pays homage to his love of Dia de los Muertos. Unlike many of today’s top artists, Lalo never attended art school. He believes that, “Art schools teach you to be like everyone else and that defeats the purpose of being an artist.” Lalo took advantage of classes throughout his public school days and focused his advanced education on developing his business practices. His work can be seen in the form of murals, billboards, stickers, paintings, and his own t-shirt line that will be soon launching on his website. He’s also done his share of painting on human canvases and has even designed actual bust casts from real models in the name of Breast Cancer awareness.

Lalo set down his paintbrushes to share his artistic thoughts with ChinaShop:

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